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The Hazen Pozzolan Project is located in Churchill County in Northern Nevada 20 miles by road from the town of Fernley and 24 miles by road from the County town of Fallon.
The Company’s mining claims were staked in June 2021 to cover a deposit of glassy pumice targeted as a natural pozzolan. Pumice is currently mined elsewhere in the US as natural pozzolan and at Hazen was mined as a lightweight aggregate from a shallow open pit some decades ago.
The markets for natural pozzolan, as a replacement for cement and fly ash in concrete, are regional and reflect the distribution of the main areas of high population density where concrete demand is highest.
The Hazen pozzolan deposit is just 9km from a rail siding on the arterial east-west Union Pacific line and is therefore well positioned for rail transport to the regional markets of northern California, points east, as well as the local markets around Reno and northern Nevada.
Its location is therefore complementary to the Company’s CS Pozzolan-Perlite Project which is targeting different cement and concrete markets in southern California and the expanding adjacent cities of Las Vegas and Henderson in southern Nevada.
Whilst the Hazen Project is less advanced than the CS Project, the Company’s laboratory testwork to date has shown that the material present in the pit is of similar high quality to the CS Project pozzolan. It exceeds the specifications of ASTM standard C6181 and mitigates the deleterious alkali silica reaction that occurs when concrete is made using reactive aggregates.
The Hazen pumice has the additional property that it is lightweight and so it will also be evaluated for its potential as a lightweight aggregate for use in lightweight concrete blocks and facing stones.
The Company has obtained a permit from the US Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for removal of a bulk test sample up to 500 tons of pozzolan from the Hazen pit and has lodged the requisite financial reclamation bond with the BLM.
Further work is required to determine the extent of the Hazen deposit although indications are that the pumice extends several hundred meters beyond the limits of the existing open pit. Looks lake Hazen project is as huge, just as huge as CS
Sheldrake’s back sticking his oar in, please, enlighten us all as to whom you are invested into these days, or has the company you sold for took a big nose dive and now your spitting feathers so taking it out on PC
I can answer that, CS is the jewel in the crown, mine fully permitted, we’re on the Caltrans list of preferred suppliers, pozz and Perl in high demand, fly.ash coming to an end, five interested parties in talks, we’re about to sell the sepiolite and cop a million quid with yearly royalties, news anytime soon, next week, next month who cares, it’s coming
He also has his finger on the pulse, I’m pretty sure he’s got it all sewn up regarding CS, with the $1.25 million that come with the Tosla deal we could JV with them or go it alone, plenty of ifs and buts and all we can do is guess what’s going on and wait, I’m waiting patiently
I’m 65% up with TYM, you have to read the latest RNS’s don’t you, like I said sres is maturing very nicely, maybe Tosla are having a cheeky look, they love the sepiolite, maybe they could love the pozz and Perl, successful companies are never ones to overlook an opportunity, who knows, you certainly don’t